-REVISION: tenses

-REPASO: tiempos verbales

PRESENT SIMPLE and PRESENT CONTINUOUS.
Choose the most suitable tense.
Elige el tiempo verbal ms adecuado.
a)What class of work DO YOU DO / ARE YOU DOING?
b)I cant talk now. I COOK / AM COOKING the dinner.
c)What shall we have? DO YOU LIKE / ARE YOU LIKING fish?
d)Can I borrow (=pedir prestado) this camera? Or DO YOU USE / ARE YOU
USING it?
e)What DO THE PEOPLE HERE DO / ARE THE PEOPLE HERE DOING in the
evenings? (here =aqu)
f)Follow that bus. Then you TURN / ARE TURNING left.

(follow=seguir)

PAST SIMPLE and PAST CONTINUOUS.

Choose the most suitable tense.
Elige el tiempo verbal ms adecuado.
a)While (=mientras) Diana WATCHED / WAS WATCHING her favourite TV
programme, there was a power-cut. (=apagn)
b)Who WAS DRIVING / DROVE the car at the time of the accident?
c)I DID / WAS DOING some shopping yesterday, when I SAW / WAS SEEING
Ignacio.
d)Last night, while I READ / WAS READING, someone KNOCKED / WAS
KNOCKING at the door. (knock = llamar)
e)The children PLAYED / WERE PLAYING in the garden when it STARTED / WAS
STARTING to rain.
PRESENT PERFECT SIMPLE or PRESENT PERFECT CONTINUOUS.
Choose the most suitable tense.
Elige el tiempo verbal ms adecuado.

a)Ignacio HAS WRITTEN / HAS BEEN WRITING his novel for the last two
years.
b)From the moment my brother got up this morning he HAS ASKED / HAS BEEN
ASKING silly questions! (silly=tonto)
c)Sorry, could you say that again (=otra vez)? I HAVENT LISTENED / HAVENT
BEEN LISTENING to you.
d)The police think that they HAVE FOUND / HAVE BEEN FINDING your missing
(=perdida) wallet.
e)I HAVE WAITED / HAVE BEEN WAITING for you for two hours!!!
Choose the most suitable tense.
Elige el tiempo verbal ms adecuado.
1)I suddenly (=de repente) REMEMBERED / HAD REMEMBERED that I FORGOT /
HAD FORGOTTEN my keys.
2)By the time I GOT BACK / HAD GOT BACK, my mother WENT / HAD GONE.
3)Isa and Roco ATE / HAD EATEN Chinese food before, so they KNEW / HAD
KNOWN what (=lo que) to order.
4)Margarita MISSED / HAD MISSED the party because nobody TOLD / HAD
TOLD her about it.
5)I LOST / HAD LOST my wallet with the money, so I DIDNT BUY / HADNT
BOUGHT the gift. (=regalo)
RELATIVE CLAUSES = oraciones de relativo.
Join the following pairs of sentences. There are defining and non-defining
relative sentences.
1. She showed me a photograph of her son. Her son is a policeman.
_____________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________
2. The new stadium will be opened next month. The stadium holds 90,000
people.
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3. John is one of my closest friends. I have known John for eight years.
_____________________________________________________________
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4. Thank you for your e-mail. I was very happy to get your letter.
_____________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________
5. Next weekend Im going to Glasgow. My sister lives in Glasgow.
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Leave out the relative if possible.
Quita el relative si es posible.
a)I think that my Philosophy teacher is the person who I admire most.
b)Roco, who was tired, went to bed early.
c)Were taking the train that leaves at 6.00.
d)have you seen the book that I left here on the table?
e)London, where my father lives, is the capital of England.
Write an appropriate relative pronoun: WHO, WHOM, WHOSE, WHICH,
WHERE, WHEN, WHAT.
a)This is the person to __________ I sold my car.
b)This is Jack,___________ sister is staying with us.
c)The hotel, __________ was a hundred years old, was very comfortable.
d)Have you met the man ____________ Margarita is going to marry?
e)Last year __________ I met Ignacio, I learnt a lot of English.
f)I told the police __________ I knew about the robber.

FUTURE TENSES = tiempos verbales de futuro

Put the verbs into the correct form (WILL, BE GOING TO, PRESENT
SIMPLE, PRESENT CONTINUOUS, FUTURE CONTINUOUS or FUTURE
PERFECT).
1.I love London. I _________ probably __________ (go) there next year.
2.Our train _____________ (leave) at 4:47.
3.What __________________ (you wear) at the party tonight?
4.I havent made up my mind yet. But I think I ______________ (find)
something nice in my mums wardrobe (=armario)
5.This is my last day here. I ________________ (go) back to England tomorrow.
6.Hurry up! (=date prisa) The conference _________________ (begin) in 20
minutes.
7.My horoscope says that I _____________ (meet) an old friend this week.
8.Look at these big black clouds (=nubes) It ______________ (rain)
9.Here is the weather forecast (=pronstico del tiempo)Tomorrow ________ (be)
dry and sunny.
10.By the time I ____________ (come) to the party, Pablo Alborn _________
___________ (go) What a pity! (=qu pena)
Defining or Non-defining? .Write D or ND
1.London, which is the capital of England, is one of the largest cities in the world.
____
2.This is the dress my mother has made for me. ___
3.Queen Elizabeth II, who is 88, has been queen of England for 58 years now. ___
4. Thats the dog that bit me. ___
5.Tom Cruise, who has starred a lot of films, is a famous American actor. ___
6.The village where I grew up is very small.___
7.Greg, whose job involves travelling a lot, has been in nearly all the countries in
the world.___
8.The office I have just rented is near my home. ___
9. This is the officer that arrested the burglar.___
10.Lady Gaga, who is a well-known star, is only 32. ___

Join these sentences using RELATIVE PRONOUNS beginning with the words
given. Omit the pronoun if possible. Add commas if necessary .
1.My high school is very big. It is in Baza. My highschool _________________
________________ is very big.
2.Robert Pattinson is an actor. He plays Edward Cullen in the Twilight saga.
Robert Pattinson is ______________________________________________
3.I bought this cake yesterday. It tastes delicious. The cake _______________
___________________________ tastes delicious.
4.Michael is a policeman. His father is a judge. Michael ____________________
___________________________ is a policeman.
5.Roco bought a computer last month. It doesnt work properly. The computer
__________________________________ doesnt work properly.
6.Pince Charles will be the king of England one day. His mother is Queen Elizabeth.
Prince Charles _________________________________________________
will be the king of England one day.